We hired a backend guy recently who didn’t know half the buzzwords. No Saga, no CQRS, shaky on K8s. On paper, easy reject. Then we gave him a real prod-ish bug: sporadic 500s, p95 spikes, only on one endpoint. He did 3 things: 1. Asked for repro + timeline. “When did it

David__Osland If your business can't afford to pay the heavily government subsidised minimum wage, then you're not a business and should be closed down. Business should not be benefitting from government largesse.

Absolute class from Bedford Borough Council. Bedford Borough Council 👏🏽 😂

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boris In other words....(how long have we been saying this?) Test in prod. Or live a lie.

Raghav Agrawal boris charity.wtf/2021/08/09/not…

Phrases I really truly never EVER want to read again: "The one no one's talking about" “The future belongs to those who” “That’s the part most people miss” “Why X is broken (and what to do about it)” “What nobody tells you about” “This changes everything” “Let that sink in” 🤢

Every hospital in England has been urged to disobey an NHS directive to use software operated by US analytics software company Palantir. A coalition of human rights, health and patient organisations, and unions sent out the plea to NHS trusts by email bmj.com/content/392/bm…

AWS Developers SQS was first in beta. Specifically, a beta that public folks could use. So this is debatable.

Sounds like something someone who's cooked would say....

USA : "Maybe we'll just take ALL OUR TROOPS out of the UK." Us ...

Finally, if you ever wake up from a coma and you aren't sure what time of year it is, here is a helpful calendar👇 We are right on schedule this year!🤣🙄 18/

Interviewing for a sysadmin job to replace the current one. I wanted to automate all the things. Current guy liked it manual. They invited him in 1/2 way through and while the hiring manager liked my answers it turned in to a full-blow fight between the two of them in front of me

Hosting you're own database is easy. Explaining the downtime, attack surface, staff needed to operate it, complexities of fail-over, replication lag, patching etc to your co-founder is harder.

Too on point not to share, “Aussie reply to Trump rant about NATO not being there for us. Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where